Solid State Drives For All

Nowadays, there are a few computer hardware manufacturers that are slowly introducing new storage disks medium for PCs and ultra-portable laptops that could replace conventional hard disks we are using for many years. They're called Solid State Drives, or SSD for short, and they will soon overshadow the dominance of Hard Disk Drives (HDD) due to their advantages.

Solid State Drives use non-volatile flash memory to store data, rather than a hard disk drive mechanism. As a result, there's no spinning motor, which means that performance is better and battery power consumption is less. SSDs produce less heat and have lower weight than hard drives. Best of all, they're highly impact-resistant so there's no way of getting your data crashed if you accidently (or carelessly) dropped your notebook.
The only downside is that SSD capacities hold only a fraction of the amount of data that hard drives can hold. For now, that is. Expect the sizes to be bigger in the not-so-distant future. Hopefully the next gen iPods use SSD for storage, so then we won't have to worry about iCrashes.